Hey puddin, turns out you don't really need an external EXIF viewer... that capability is already built into the Microsoft OS (but we already knew that, right ). The steps shown below only work if the "original" picture file "actually" contains EXIF data.

For "limited" EXIF data:

Open Windows Explorer, then:

In XP, hover the mouse pointer over the picture file name and the Date/Time taken and Camera info will appear.

In Vista, hover the mouse pointer over the picture file name and only the Date taken info will appear.

In Windows 7, hovering the mouse doesn't do anything, rather, click-once on the picture file name and the Date taken info will appear at the bottom of the window. (Interesting, it even allows you to change the date).

Streetview imagery update today for Mexico: Mexico City, Monterrey, Cancun, and a few other cities (you might remember this). There's also a new player in streetview called Mapplo. It wants to be pre-eminent in Latin America, and its preview shows a few areas of Buenos Aires; the trouble is, they're using their own algorithims rather than borrowing Google or Mapjack, and I found the preview to be slow and rather buggy.

Google Labs is previewing Google Swirl, which is a mashup of their Similar Image search and their Wonder Wheel. Only a limited number of search terms are available in the preview, but oddly Prague map is there. The nodes are centered around image themes; click on a node and the wheel pops up. Not sure how useful it is to our purposes, but it's interesting to play with.

Bing is now counterpunching with the release of Bing Maps Explore Beta (here's Las Vegas). Silverlight is required. With the map in Auto mode, as you zoom in it changes from map to 3D modeling to Bird's Eye. Click the little blue man and their streetview, called streetside, is enabled; so far only the casino area is covered, but the resolution looks better than Google (which for some reason looks crummy in Vegas).

Not sure if y'all know about this already, but came across a cool feature of Google Search when combined with Twitter.

If you go to Google Search and enter something like this ---> "keyword" twitter

Then on the Google Search page you get, along with other items, a small scroll box which is constantly updating with Twitter messages that have the "keyword". Cool.... it keeps doing this without any refreshing, and will do so until you click "pause". So you can set up an initial search and just sit back and watch the twitters roll in, continually. You can also scroll back to see any you've missed.

It's a collection of the hundreds of thousands of actual photos US astronauts have taken from outer space during the entire history of the space program. It's searchable, so you can find your house (if you're lucky). Kinda like a Google Earth view, only from about 200 miles up in space. hmmmm... now if we can only get the ISS to track Phil and the racers in real time from space....

A startup named Keitor might prove to be a time-saver. A front-end for Google, it has a drop-down box for translation and filetype filters you can click on. What sets it apart are the virtual keyboards you can enable: Basque, Armenian, Thai, Kazakh, etc.

It's a collection of the hundreds of thousands of actual photos US astronauts have taken from outer space during the entire history of the space program. It's searchable, so you can find your house (if you're lucky). Kinda like a Google Earth view, only from about 200 miles up in space. hmmmm... now if we can only get the ISS to track Phil and the racers in real time from space....